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nencahui.

Headword: 
nencahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be in vain (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēncāhui
IPAspelling: 
neːnkɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNCĀHU(I) to be in vain / ser en balde (K) [(2)Tp.167J. T only gives a gloss for the negation of this, AHMŌ NĒNCĀHU(I) 'not to be in vain, hopeless.' The preterit of this verb contrasts in vowel length with -NENCĀUH 'one's servant.' See NĒN-CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 167.